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Category: Edgar Allan Poe

Dante Gabriel RossettiPosted onJanuary 25, 2017October 4, 2018

Aesthetic Vampirism

Literature is filled with fictional portraits. Visual art and the written word can intertwine in glorious ways. Dorian Gray’s mysteriously aging painting springs to mind…

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Dante Gabriel RossettiPosted onOctober 9, 2015October 9, 2015

A #WombatFriday for Poe

Inspired by artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s passion for wombats, every Friday is Wombat Friday at Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood. “The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a…

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Dante Gabriel RossettiPosted onJuly 17, 2014January 19, 2016

Ulalume

As I mentioned in Rossetti and the art of death, Edgar Allan Poe was a great influence on DGR’s work. The Raven is a prime example of…

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Dante Gabriel RossettiPosted onJuly 16, 2014August 28, 2017

Rossetti and the art of death

“It is a subject from an old story of mine — a woman dying while her lover is painting her portrait”  (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) This…

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Dante Gabriel RossettiPosted onJanuary 11, 2011January 3, 2015

Dante Gabriel Rossetti illustrates Edgar Allan Poe’s The Sleeper

“Poe is a key figure in the development of DGR’s literary style as well. The second-order romanticism developed in Poe’s imaginative writings, and explicated in…

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Dante Gabriel RossettiPosted onJanuary 10, 2011January 3, 2015

Dante Gabriel Rossetti illustrates Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven

Who doesn’t love Edgar Allan Poe’s poem The Raven?  A masterful poem of mourning, loss and visitation in which the poem’s speaker is grief-stricken with…

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